Gopher-truck



(N0 Model.)

v GOPHER TRUCK. No. 405,960. Patented June 25,. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL R. HARRY, OF CHATS\VORTH, ILLINOIS.

GOPHER-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,960, dated June 25, 1889. Application filed February 28, 1889- Serial No. 301,587. (No model.)

To all whom it may CON/0877b:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. HARRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chatsworth, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Gopher-Truck, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is for convenience of transfer from place to place about the farm of the agricultural implement known as a gopher.

Figure 1 is a clamp to be bolted onto gopher-legD by bolts m and n, as represented in Fig. 3. Fig. 2 represents Wheel E B and wheel 0, with arm E. Arm E passes into socket F, Fig. 1, as represented in Fig. Fig. 3 represents Figs. 1 and 2 combined for use.

A set of these trucks is to be fastened on the two hind legs or two fore legs, as the user may choose.

Clamp A, Figs. 1 and 3, and wheel-frame E B, Fig. 2, are to be made of wrougl1tiron bars, aboutone and one-half inch wide and about three or four sixteenths thick, doubled and shaped as represented in figures and letters referred to, or they may be cast. Clamp A is bent a little sidewise at at to let the wheels run straight.

The Wheel 0 is about a foot in diameter and two inches thick, cheap, and easily made of two-inch plank.

To use the trucks, bolt the clamp A, Figs. 1 and 3, on thehind legs of the gopher. They should be allowed to remain. The gopher is then always ready to be mounted by slipping the arm E, Figs. 2 and 3, into the socket F, Fig. 1, as represented in Fig. 51. These are readily removed by raising the gopher and allowing them to drop out.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire Letters Patent on, is v In a gopher-truck, the combination of clamp A, socket F, wheel-frame E B, and wheel C, as set forth.

SAMUEL R. HARRY.

\Vitnesses:

L. '1. HARRY, B. M. VAIL. 

